Wichita eagle., 1887-05-25
ADVERTISING KANSAS.

Our Glorious State and Rer Countless
Advantages.
From the Junction City Union.
It is said that Kansas is the best adver-
tised state in the union. This is probably
so, and 1t is certain that it Is well adver-
tised In the Union. Of you don't see the
point Of our little joke, take off your coat
and try again.) We are advertising itagain
this week. But ii greatly deserves it, and
j. - most benevolent enterprise to do it.
Don't you see, If one-third of what the
advertisements say is true, the people OF
the world ought to know it. They onght
to have a chance to come and
see for themselves what all this fother
is about, and II they come we know they
will stay, or at least wish they could.
Some of them just can't stay, but they
leave some Of their money in corner lots
or corn fields, and when they get back
tbev send their boys and girls, cousins,
aunts, uncles and nephews to come and
look after them and buy more for
themselves. Isn't it just marvellous how
they are looming? Some of them leave
home, New England or old England, Bal
timore or Berlin, Ohio or Odessa, on the
pretense of seeing the mountains-the high
Rockies Californis, but they STOP. OIL in
Kansas to investigate poem.
And they do investigate, all OF them, w. r.,.e
, -,csults above named. And WI .nou,ysp' ),
thew stop here? Therc.s as much land
here to the saue-... mile as anywhere, and
there's ci ,S1s Of them. There is air here
as fresh as any in the world, just tlecked
little with smoke from five thousand miles
of railway and sundry cities of forty o.
fiftv Thousand inhabitants and some Goa
mining districts and coke ovens and zin'
works and lead furnaces There ar
glorious uplands here, gently rolling hlsi
Orarie stretching out like the sillowy sea
There are valleys here so fruitful that tn
, truthful story of their fertility SOUNDS iih'
fable to the inhabitants OF the sun
rising states. Mountains there ar
none Int hills rounded and mound like
e level plateaus, carved by old Aqua out
, solid earth with ribs of rock and bands 0
color glorious as the gates OF heaven
, There are rivers whose surpentine wander
r ings were but family typified by Old Mt
/. ander. There are springs gushing 1rof
4 the rocks as though Moses had smltten IN
= limestone. There are orchards where ID
{ pippins rival the fruit of Hesperides an
e the clusters of grapes are sucn as joseph
e friend, the butler, Woulu nave pieeoo" - -
?. the cup of Pharoah. There are aei
where the wild plums rival the aprlco
$ Gardens where asparagus and cabbage be;
h those of Holland, and plantations whel
e cotton grows like in the famous sea lsiand
q Perhaps you like scenery: we nave sal
2 there are no mountains, but If woody. Oil
Il cles. rocky dells, strong rlVel
o make scenery, you nave 'io'
% In Kansas. Nay more; "
). have crowded regions where the sandston
is in masses of standing rocks, pulpit
u ninnacles, towers and caps. Then whe
IS wheat is ripe in the golden belt-thre
IS fonr,hs of the state, where can you loo
y on a more gorgeous sight?-and the corn
- the maize. then tall and aricb dark green
ce stresmers waving in the most loyo'
ST hreezes that blow from heaven-a mlliit
Y acres of it more or less tells of comm
= nlenty for both man and beast. and plen
:" IF both men and beasts. o. yes v
e shall keep ON advertising Kansas; the Pc
N nle ought to know about it. We wa
"A ms, two million more of them from !
ssst and we will breed the rest-of hig
IA or rrander, improved type OF man
OF rast of the ten million with which I
re state will be peopled in the year OF o
ne ord 1870.